Abstract
Xinjiang production and Construction Corps (XPCC) is an important provincial administration in China and vigorously promotes the construction of industrialization. However, there has been little research on its emissions. This study first established the 1998-2018 XPCC subsectoral carbon emission inventory based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carbon emission inventory method and adopted the logarithmic mean Divisia indexmethod (LMDI) model to analyze the driving factors. The results revealed that from 1998 to 2018, the total carbon emissions in the XPCC increased from 6.11 Mt CO2 in 1998 to 115.71 Mt CO2 in 2018. For the energy structure, raw coal, coke and industrial processes were the main contributors to carbon emissions. For industrial structure, the main emission sectors were the production and supply of electric power, steam and hot water, petroleum processing and coking, raw chemical materials and chemical products, and smelting and pressing of nonferrous metals. In addition, the economic effect was the leading factor promoting the growth of the corps carbon emissions, followed by technical and population effects. The energy structure effect was the only factor yielding a low emission reduction degree. This research provides policy recommendations for the XPCC to formulate effective carbon emission reduction measures, which is conducive to the construction of a low-carbon society. Moreover, it is of guiding significance for the development of carbon emission reduction actions for the enterprises under the corps and provides a reference value for other provincial regions.
Highlights
Carbon emissions are the most important factor causing climate change Liu et al (2019), Wang et al (2020), and the burning of fossil fuels and industrial processes are the main sources of global carbon emissions (Habert et al, 2020; Zhang et al, 2020; Wang et al, 2021)
During the period from 2008 to 2015, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) total carbon emissions increased at a fast pace, and the average growth rate increased to 28.81%
The last period is from 2015 to 2018, and in contrast to the continued rapid growth of Xinjiang, the carbon emissions in the XPCC suddenly transitioned from rapid growth to slow growth after a turning point was reached in 2015, and the average annual growth rate of the corps carbon emissions decreased from 28.81% to 1.89%
Summary
Carbon emissions are the most important factor causing climate change Liu et al (2019), Wang et al (2020), and the burning of fossil fuels and industrial processes are the main sources of global carbon emissions (Habert et al, 2020; Zhang et al, 2020; Wang et al, 2021). As the world’s largest carbon emitter Janssens-Maenhout et al (2019), Yang et al (2020), the Chinese government proposed its nationally determined contribution target in the Paris Agreement signed in 2016 Zhang (2017) and CO2 Emission in XPCC promised to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030, while the carbon emissions per unit of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2030 would be reduced by 60–65% based on the rate in 2005 To achieve this goal, China has implemented many active countermeasures Shan et al (2020), including starting the construction of a national carbon emission trading market in 2017 Weng and Xu (2018) and enshrining ecological civilization in the constitution in 2018, which provided an impetus and guarantee for ecological and environmental legal system construction in China (Li et al, 2019). As the regions of which are distributed in the administrative regions of Xinjiang are relatively scattered, the existing carbon emission accounting research has neglected a distinct administrative area called the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) McMillen (1981), which has led to carbon emission accounting gaps regarding the XPCC
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